They should auction off tags to help fund the park's services. They could likely bring in $100s of thousands from just 4 or 5. It would also likely save that amount in helicopter sniper time.

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There are 600 goats in the park. You could auction off 50 tags nationwide and fund the entire rest of the project with money left over.

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The park tried to move them once before and the greenies shut it down, about 25 years ago. They used helicopters and tranquilizers. The helicopters would lower a harness to the goat and fly them off. Greenies said it was too dangerous and was causing psychological damage to goats.

The park tried to move them once before and the greenies shut it down, about 25 years ago. They used helicopters and tranquilizers. The helicopters would lower a harness to the goat and fly them off. Greenies said it was too dangerous and was causing psychological damage to goats.

Maybe they could first dart the greenies, harness them up, and fly them back to CA. Just a thought.

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Because it's a national park it won't happen, but they should have a country wide raffle to hunt set number of goats, use that money to transplant he rest into areas in Washington. What will happen is they will use our tax money to pay a professional to come early shoot x number of goats and more tax money to transplant them out of state.

The goats are thriving in the Olympics why does the state want to eradicate them from an area that they are doing good in. Someone was killed by a wild animal and they are jumping to such extremes. It cracks me up that they say they are not native to the Olympics. Mountain goats are native to the Northwestern part of the United States. Its not like they were introduced into another continent. There are only 3500 goats in the whole state, the conservationist in me says help them thrive and maybe someday our grandchildren will have goats to kill when they spill outside of the park. Or let us hunt 25 of them a year inside the park and it will create a more natural relationship between animals with hooves and those of us with thumbs.

The park tried to move them once before and the greenies shut it down, about 25 years ago. They used helicopters and tranquilizers. The helicopters would lower a harness to the goat and fly them off. Greenies said it was too dangerous and was causing psychological damage to goats.

Maybe they could first dart the greenies, harness them up, and fly them back to CA. Just a thought.

The goats are thriving in the Olympics why does the state want to eradicate them from an area that they are doing good in. Someone was killed by a wild animal and they are jumping to such extremes. It cracks me up that they say they are not native to the Olympics. Mountain goats are native to the Northwestern part of the United States. Its not like they were introduced into another continent. There are only 3500 goats in the whole state, the conservationist in me says help them thrive and maybe someday our grandchildren will have goats to kill when they spill outside of the park. Or let us hunt 25 of them a year inside the park and it will create a more natural relationship between animals with hooves and those of us with thumbs.

Supposedly the native flora is more important than the non-native fauna. The NPS has been trying to rid the park of them for years. The conflict permit was created to help solve this problem but the success rate sucks so it seams the NPS is going to try other methods.

They could just make an open season for any goat in the Olympics kinda like how they deal with the feral hog problem. Ya I know its a park but those goats are crazed killers and we must deal with the obvious. Its either that or plant a bunch of wolves to take care of the problem until they kill a hiker...

The park tried to move them once before and the greenies shut it down, about 25 years ago. They used helicopters and tranquilizers. The helicopters would lower a harness to the goat and fly them off. Greenies said it was too dangerous and was causing psychological damage to goats.

Maybe they could first dart the greenies, harness them up, and fly them back to CA. Just a thought.

Now there's a common sense solution!

that would cover a big portion of the west side of the state.

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The goats are thriving in the Olympics why does the state want to eradicate them from an area that they are doing good in. Someone was killed by a wild animal and they are jumping to such extremes. It cracks me up that they say they are not native to the Olympics. Mountain goats are native to the Northwestern part of the United States. Its not like they were introduced into another continent. There are only 3500 goats in the whole state, the conservationist in me says help them thrive and maybe someday our grandchildren will have goats to kill when they spill outside of the park. Or let us hunt 25 of them a year inside the park and it will create a more natural relationship between animals with hooves and those of us with thumbs.

Supposedly the native flora is more important than the non-native fauna. The NPS has been trying to rid the park of them for years. The conflict permit was created to help solve this problem but the success rate sucks so it seams the NPS is going to try other methods.

The success rate for the conflict goat hunts sucks? That hunt seems like a no brainer with a lot of access, little pressure, and a good population.

The goats are thriving in the Olympics why does the state want to eradicate them from an area that they are doing good in. Someone was killed by a wild animal and they are jumping to such extremes. It cracks me up that they say they are not native to the Olympics. Mountain goats are native to the Northwestern part of the United States. Its not like they were introduced into another continent. There are only 3500 goats in the whole state, the conservationist in me says help them thrive and maybe someday our grandchildren will have goats to kill when they spill outside of the park. Or let us hunt 25 of them a year inside the park and it will create a more natural relationship between animals with hooves and those of us with thumbs.

Supposedly the native flora is more important than the non-native fauna. The NPS has been trying to rid the park of them for years. The conflict permit was created to help solve this problem but the success rate sucks so it seams the NPS is going to try other methods.

The success rate for the conflict goat hunts sucks? That hunt seems like a no brainer with a lot of access, little pressure, and a good population.

Both conflict reduction hunts last year were 100% success. I'm not sure how that sucks?

The goats are thriving in the Olympics why does the state want to eradicate them from an area that they are doing good in. Someone was killed by a wild animal and they are jumping to such extremes. It cracks me up that they say they are not native to the Olympics. Mountain goats are native to the Northwestern part of the United States. Its not like they were introduced into another continent. There are only 3500 goats in the whole state, the conservationist in me says help them thrive and maybe someday our grandchildren will have goats to kill when they spill outside of the park. Or let us hunt 25 of them a year inside the park and it will create a more natural relationship between animals with hooves and those of us with thumbs.

If they are going to eradicate the goats anyways, why so few conflict tags? I understand why they wouldn't want an open season (would just push the goats back into the park), but why not 4 seasons (August, September, October, November), 25 tags per season or something like that.